Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Clark

Having an endangered or candidate species on your property should be a good thing, something a landowner can be proud of, not something to avoid. With the administrative reforms we have made to the Endangered Species Act, such as safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and candidate conservation agreements with assurances, ranchers, timber companies and other landowners are able to participate in the conservation of at-risk species without the concern that their future plans may be delayed or halted.

Paul Tagliabue

I think the critical thing now is we're at the point where it's recognized, certainly by us, that the time is right, ... We have to get agreements finalized. We'll be pursuing agreements in Anaheim. We're going to work with both communities for an agreement.

John Logsdon

It is clear that the White House has made a policy decision that we are going to honor our international agreements on ISS, and we are going to continue to fly the shuttle in order to launch the international components.

Randy Levine

We're in the process of negotiating agreements that we think are going to be very significant.

Christine Karbowiak

We are extremely pleased to announce that Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. and the United Steelworkers of America have reached tentative agreements on three contracts covering 8,000 workers at nine facilities in eight states.

John Edward

What you're going to say to a family that's lost their job because of bad trade agreements is, 'Don't worry, we've got a Washington committee that's studying this for you,'

Richard Boucher

It is important to us to be able to keep working with the parties and try to do what we can diplomatically to calm the situation, get back to implementation of the agreements of the cease-fire.

E. Helm

We must have a full debate and votes on issues such as China's pitiful human rights record, China's brutal suppression of religious freedom, China's increasingly belligerent stance toward the Democratic Chinese government on Taiwan and China's unbroken record of violated agreements one after another on other matters. You can't trust them,

Glenn Tilton

We look forward to continued cooperation with all of our unions and employee groups as we work to reach consensual agreements that will help us redesign our business and compete more effectively in the long term.

Kim Norris

Joseph Clark went on a brutal crime spree, killing two people and seriously injuring another. The courts have appropriately reviewed this case and upheld his just sentence and conviction.

Christopher Cox

He is, of course, a brutal thug, ... Late Edition.

Stephen Hall

This was one of the most brutal and heinous crimes committed in the county, ... I do, frankly, feel sorry for your family.

Random House

Hard News: Twenty-One Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed the American Media

Michael Heath

He's a brutal Marxist dictator. He's teamed up with Fidel Castro. He's trying to split our nation.

Bethany Dillon

God's unearthly grace and immeasurable love for us is the heartbeat of this whole record. This is a story of hope and redemption, one that paints a brutally and beautifully honest picture of what it is to really live by faith.

Julie Brown

Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.

Bobby Bowden

He's gotten into a different situation now and needs to step it up. And it looks like he's got the message. He's got the physical part, the brutality part down. He just needs the finesse part, doing the things correctly and doing it smoothly. He's got the tools of somebody you can count on.

Kevin Smith

I think it's kind of brutal that they don't even have enough food to facilitate the volunteers. You'd think in a city like Toronto, with all the wealth, we'd be able to donate enough food for everyone.

George Beranek

It also helps that Chinese contractors tend to do the work on their projects.

Hu Jia

I think it's ironic that the way the Chinese government prepares to host the United Nations Commission on Human Rights is by placing dissidents under house arrest.

Bill Gates

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement...access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

Jim Campbell

To get any volume for the Chinese it will take a couple of years to ramp up.

Marvin Harris

I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk.

Mark White

I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play.

Robert Fortune

I have, however, often seen Chinese gardeners selecting suckers and plants for this purpose from the other plants which are growing in their garden.

F. Stone

I would say that the immigration debate is as hot as gun control, abortion, the war in Iraq. I've never seen it this hot in terms of emotion.

Tom Campbell

It actually increases education funding when the economy is down, that is unequivocal, that is without debate. Then when the economy is doing well, the legislature could put the money back in or not. It's up to the legislature. Its not automatic.

Steven Hall

What we don't want to do is turn the forum into a debate.

Tom McClintock

He offered a perspective to the debate that will be missed, ... But his decision to withdraw intensifies my resolve to stay and fight." ()

Michael Powell

Here's the truth: the ownership debate is about nothing but content. Don't be fooled. I mean, this is my greatest warning to the American public.

H. Hart

It comes down to the familiar debate about whether reporters are ignoring the good news.

Robert Hale

It comes down to a policy debate about whether the Internet is open or not.

Nancy Pelosi

It is a disservice to a very serious debate about security and liberty for him to resort to that kind of a statement.

Tom Daschle

I think that there is an implication here, as they've done throughout this debate on Iraq, that if you oppose the president, your patriotism ought to be questioned, ... Meet the Press.

Jalal Talabani

I swore to respect the Iraqi democratic regime and the Iraqi laws.

John Kitzhaber

has less to do with me than the general malaise of the Democratic Party right now.

Daniel Greenberg

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

Larry Jacobs

We've gone from a situation of Democratic dominance to parity.

Jalal Talabani

We support the principle of democratic change, even with American assistance.

Stephen Breyer

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

Thomas Mann

I think was Harry Truman who said, 'If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic,' ... The idea that somehow a Democratic majority is harmful for the economy strikes me as fanciful. It's financial fiction.

Tony Leon

I think voters are repulsed by the floor-crossers who took away their democratic mandate and this is an opportunity to make it right.

Nkosana Sibuyi

It is our firm view that the declaration of this day as a public holiday will enable voters to exercise their democratic right to vote as enshrined in our Constitution.

Jeff Sessions

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

George Fleming

Keep your references up to speed on your job search and its results. By communicating what's going on with you and your job search, you're using your references to the fullest capacity.

Hwang Suk

I take full responsibility for the papers and offer you my apology.

Joseph Smith

I take full responsibility for the crimes. . . . I knew I was wrong, but I couldn't stop.

Colin McRae

He was a great guy and full of laughs and great spirit,

John Ball

He wanted to play last week and perhaps he could have, ... But we wanted to make sure he had a full week of practice before he played. Now he's had that.

Jim Cole

He walked around with pockets full of quarters, handing out handfuls to people just to put a smile on their faces.

Michigan State

He could be at full speed in one step.

Bob Johnson

He knows one speed, and it's full speed,

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Rick Blount

I thought for sure the government at some level would have solved my problems for me, but since that doesn't look like it's going to happen, we have to go this route.

Buzz Aldrin

I think you have to talk to your congressman to try to get the government to want to work with the private sector.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Muhammad Yunus

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

Jacqueline Novogratz

What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Susanne Bier

I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Hu Jintao

It is only through the road of peaceful development that the progress of the human race and the prosperity of a nation shall and can be achieved,

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Tim Chelling

I think what it shows is that some of these issues are perennial. Some of these issues have worked themselves out.

Marshall Acuff

I think this could go on for another year or more. There is no short-term resolution of the major issues in sight.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

Duane Lewis

He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.

Bill Graham

I did point out (that) his is a minority that is even less strong than ours and on many of these issues he knows that not only (does) he represent a minority of members of the House, but also in terms of the electorate.

Paul Rees

It was pretty shocking. Somewhere between pitiful and pantomime.

Jim Bunning

I think their records should all be wiped out.

Walter Molony

We think 2006 will be another record for second-home sales.

David Walker

I think a lot of teams would probably have the same record if you look at who they've played,

Jeff Corey

I think they have a much better team then their record indicates.

AJ Michalka

I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. I want to continue to make great films and work with incredible directors that I respect and look up to.

Brian Setzer

He was just thrilled, ... He said, 'Oh my gosh, you want to record that old song? I think I got it up in the attic!'

Regina Spektor

I don't really make records chronologically.

Robert Crumb

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Lars Trier

I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film.

Rob Sheffield

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Richard Paul Evans

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Richard Paul Evans

Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.

Richard P. Feynman

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.

Richard Dawkins

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

Richard Dawkins

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.

Richard Dawkins

The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children

Richard Dawkins

The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward of heaven, but the rules of the holy books are out of date and often barbaric.

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

William Perry

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Ryan Miller

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

Reinhold Niebuhr

While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

William J. Brennan

The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.

William Jennings Bryan

The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Bob Marley

Rise and take your stance once again

Steve Johnson

Democratic, market-oriented Taiwan is a thorn in its side.

Jason Wu

The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

Annette Lu

Taiwan is democratic.

Jeremy Lin

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Bible Bible

And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

John Gandy

As we got toward the end of the year, he was indicating some things he had to complete.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

David Dearborn

Essentially, we're all working toward the same goal.

Larry Davis

Everything has to go perfect. We're working toward that date. We'll see if we make it.

Rebecca West

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Umberto Eco

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

Robert C. Solomon

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Robert C. Solomon

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Robert C. Solomon

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

Robert C. Solomon

Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

Robert C. Solomon

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

John Kelly

I feel like I've been raped. Someone's violated my home.

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Pete Wilson

We'll have to see who has the votes if it comes to that.

Richard Rossi

To make up this many votes is probably very difficult. I'll see how I feel in a week.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Al Sharpton

Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale.